October 2011 Blog Posts (10)

Please inform yourself properly. Don't forget, El Ceibo brand is owned by the cooperative 100% not an individual person. Thank you, for the respect of the cocoa producers of El Ceibo - Bolivia.

Bonjour

The profile EL CEIBO "giving back" on this website is not created by the cocoa producers from El Ceibo. The owner of this profile could you kindly remove it? Thank you, for the respect of the cocoa producers of El ceibo - Bolivia

 

CHLOE DOUTRE ROUSSEL

A few months ago I read a compelling dissertation by Cristian Melo on the loss of Ecuador's fine flavor cacao and the plight of  Ecuador's tens of thousands of small farmers. It inspired to me to act, in some small  way, to help small… Continue

just added a new recipe on my blog www.chocolatetradingcompanyuk.com/blog but could do with a lot more recipes. Does anyone have any that they can send ?

The Hawaii Chocolate Meeting

Aloha! Thanks to the replies. We conducted a survey to assess the status of Hawaii cacao/chocolate industry and thanks to those who fed us the necessary information. The results were presented during the Hawaii Chocolate meeting last September 28, 2011 at the Hawaii State Capitol. Thanks to Skip Bittenbender and Amy Hammond who made this meeting possible. The participants agreed to organize Hawaii Chocolate Association, which willprovide central…

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Our family has begun a trip around the world in search of cacao and chocolate. We will be travelling with our kids to France, Germany, Italy, Madagascar, Vietnam, Mexico, Ecuador, and many others. We have started blogging about it on a new site called The Chocolate Chronicles (founded by The Chocolate Life's Clay Gordon).

 To find out more about us, try our Backgrounder.

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Took NJ Transit into Port Authority arriving around 11:00am in the City.  Walked down to Meadow on 10^th Street on Hudson.  Joe Salvatore from Madecasse Chocolate was listed to be there with no specific time and found out on arrival he will show up at 2pm and stay until 5pm.  Looked for a while at their amazing varieties of chocolates.  I had tried some of them and read about many others on the Internet.  Also learned there are many more out there I have never heard about.  I have…

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Dear Friends: There is just one species of cacao but different strains: Theobroma cacao, which is highly variable in its morphology depending of many surrounding factors and a quiet high unstable inner genetic, can be basically catalogued into two groups: The ones with purple seeds and the ones with white seeds. The purple seeded trees occasionally produce an offspring of a “albino” Cacao, which in some cases will bear only white seeded offspring creating a new strain by its own genetic… Continue

I will be at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris from Oct 20 - Oct 24, if  you plan to attend please stop by the Brazilian booth and lets talk. I will  be pleased to show you our best beans and chocolates.  There will be a good opportunity to meet and chat with many Brazilian cocoa growers.  Check our our web site www.bahiacocoabean.com.br.

 

[Note: This post was edited by Clay to include a title. Lola Gedeon is the wife of…

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Chocolate is more than just chocolate - the consumer is often uncritical in its selection and simply eats it without giving it a second thought. This blog(book) communicates knowledge about chocolate in order to in crease the pleasure in its consumption. Chocolate, such as is enjoyed today, is the product of a variety of specialist processes tailored to achieve maximum pleasure. This blog(book) contains a wealth of interesting facts and, after reading it, you will no longer just consume…

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